Re: Xfree86 video buffering?

[Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob () suespammers org>]

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 06:35:00PM -0500, Eric Windisch wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:35 -0800, Eric Paynter wrote:
> > On Wed, February 23, 2005 1:08 pm, KF (lists) said:
> > > Recently I have noticed that after shutting down my machine or rebooting
> > > my X-windows will briefly flash an image of whatever I was doing when I
> > > rebooted the machine or logged out.
>
> I've seen this in the past as well and believed it to be an issue with
> memory management of the video card, not an issue with XFree86 itself.
> I could be wrong.

Looks like related to the VESA buffer, since I only saw it happen when
using the VESA driver.

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob () suespammers org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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